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<h1><a href="../cli/npm-pack.html">npm-pack</a></h1> <p>Create a tarball from a package</p>
<h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre><code>npm pack [[&lt;@scope&gt;/]&lt;pkg&gt;...] [--dry-run]</code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>For anything that&#39;s installable (that is, a package folder, tarball,
tarball url, name@tag, name@version, name, or scoped name), this
command will fetch it to the cache, and then copy the tarball to the
current working directory as <code>&lt;name&gt;-&lt;version&gt;.tgz</code>, and then write
the filenames out to stdout.</p>
<p>If the same package is specified multiple times, then the file will be
overwritten the second time.</p>
<p>If no arguments are supplied, then npm packs the current package folder.</p>
<p>The <code>--dry-run</code> argument will do everything that pack usually does without
actually packing anything. Reports on what would have gone into the tarball.</p>
<h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2>
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<li><a href="../cli/npm-cache.html">npm-cache(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-publish.html">npm-publish(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-config.html">npm-config(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../misc/npm-config.html">npm-config(7)</a></li>
<li><a href="../files/npmrc.html">npmrc(5)</a></li>
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